Quotes & Sayings About Fanciness

I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing ... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience. — Mario Batali

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince. — Rosellen Brown

The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orange light, filling the room with a presence almost more than human. — Gregory Figg

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader. — Katherine Paterson

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it. — Chuck Palahniuk

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet. — Vespasian

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can. — Tom Araya

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. — David Antin

A story is told of one of the most revered abbots of fourth-century Egypt, Pachomius the Great, who refused to see his sister Maria when she came to visit him. The explanation was his own urgent need to avoid someone who might entangle him in the bonds of family feeling, and he was even praised for his self-control in being able to forgo the pleasure of her visit. It is not surprising that women sometimes found the self-involvement of male ascetics irritating. — Kate Cooper

But one thing she'd learned was that if a girl didn't ask, a girl wouldn't get. — Leanne Banks

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do. — Denis Waitley

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. — David Foster Wallace

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo. — Joan Crawford